My own orchard has been built for five or six years, and there is no big change on weekdays. But when Bai Chang followed his father past one of the orchards, he realized that the changes were even more exaggerated than he expected.

The mulberry tree, which had already borne fruit in June and July, was hung with a half-finger-long green mulberry at this time, which was particularly abrupt. And such a scene can be seen from afar all over the mulberry orchard.

"It seems that the mutation of plants is more serious than imagined."

Bai Chang thought secretly in his heart, and then took a sip of tea to moisten his dry throat, and then it was another half an hour away.

As he approached the orchard in question, Bai Chang, who was wearing a straw hat, looked up from time to time and looked at the Shuanglong Cave to the west. Carefully recalling the details, it is estimated that it will be tomorrow night at the latest.

"I didn't expect that after two o'clock, the sun was still so poisonous, I knew it would have come later. Can you still walk? If not, just take a break. ”

Baiyi Mountain, who was also wearing a wheat straw hat, looked up at the sun still hanging high in the sky, turned around and asked.

shook his clothes, trying to blow the sweat on his body, but the slightly hot wind set off made Bai Chang feel even hotter. Estimating that it was not far away, he waved his hand:

"Don't worry, let's go to the yard and rest for a while."

The intense sunlight is wantonly swaying its own heat at this time. The knowledge on the tree is constantly noisy, making people more and more irritable. Walk through the boiling heat and along the dirt road towards the mountains. Gradually, the original rolling heat wave has subsided a lot, but it is a little cooler.

Towering sand forests obscure the scorching sun. The refreshing coolness gradually seeped into Bai Chang's body, making him shiver. Turning over this forest, it is my own yard in the mountains. Bai Chang wiped the sweat that had cooled down on his face, and muttered in his heart.

Time passed slowly with the footsteps, and it was estimated that after walking for another half an hour, Bai Chang and his father finally arrived at the place.

"Wang, Wang."

Ignoring the rhubarb in the courtyard, excitedly waging his tail and white. Bai Chang re-blocked the fence of the courtyard and followed his father to the mud house in the south.

"Squeak!"

Bai Yishan opened the wooden door, and Bai Chang followed in. The feeling of an air-conditioned room woke up Bai Chang's somewhat confused brain.

"Let's rest first, I'll go get a bucket of cold water, wash my face and then go and see."

Holding a wheat straw hat and fanning the cool breeze, I watched Baiyishan carry a wooden bucket and walk towards the old well. Bai Chang looked around at the layout of the room, and felt so familiar.

Speaking of which, this small courtyard is Bai Chang's "hometown". It was only in the end of the national policy to concentrate the distribution of the population that it moved out.

Looking at the loess walls, gray-brown tiles, wooden window frames, and old homes, it still makes people feel a little intimate, after all, I spent my childhood here.

Thinking back to the memories of his orchard in his mind, Bai Chang gradually became a lot clearer.

There are about 70 acres of my own house, which seems to be quite a lot, but the land in the countryside is not concentrated, and most of them are in the east and west.

There are only three pieces of relatively concentrated, one of seven or eight acres, which is at the door of the house, and is used as a vegetable field by the parents, usually planting vegetables, peanuts, corn and so on.

And a piece of more than ten acres, not far from home, although it is an orchard, there is no problem. The biggest change is that in September, small green mulberry fruits have grown.

In the end, the orchard that really went wrong was the 20 acres of land around the old house. It may be because the west side is against Shuanglong Mountain, so it is easy to run out of the mountain forest beasts.

"Wash your face first, and then go and see."

Bai Yishan walked in with half a bucket of cold water and put it in front of Bai Chang. Turned around and took two dry towels from the room and threw them to Bai Chang.

"yes, okay."

Bai Chang nodded, took off his shirt, went bare-chested, glued the towel with cold water, and wiped the sweat on his body in order to remove the heat on his body.

After more than ten minutes, the two of them almost rested. Without saying a word, the two of them got up directly and put on wheat straw hats, plugged in the deadbolt with their backhands, and turned around and plunged into the heat wave.

"Hiss"

The heat slapped on his body, and a chill rushed directly from his back to the top of his head, making Bai Chang snort softly. Looking up at the sun, he sneezed straight again.

"Ahh

"I wouldn't have let you come if I knew I wouldn't have come. It's hot and cold, so you won't catch a cold. ”

Bai Yishan glanced back and asked with a frown.

"Just look at the sun, just sneeze, it's okay, Dad. Let's hurry to the garden. ”

Bai Chang crutched his shoulders, moved his joints, and patted himself on the chest, indicating that it was okay.

"Actually, our old mulberry tree seems to be dying."

Bai Yishan nodded and continued.

"Huh? What old mulberry tree? ”

......

The trunk of the tree that the two of them hugged together, but it was less than ten meters high. The incongruous ratio of length and width makes it look like a low treehouse.

The main trunk of the tree, which resembles veins and veins, looks as if it has been engraved with a strange totem. Glancing inside, countless blood-red mulberry fruits were hanging on the branches. In the sunlight, there was a bright blood-colored glow.

Bai Chang guessed that the reason for his father's fracture may be because of the appearance of mutated plants in his orchard, which attracted the attention of wild beasts. My father was guarding the orchard, so he broke his bones.

However, Bai Chang never dreamed of it. The mutated plant turned out to be the old mulberry tree in the orchard of the Bai Chang family. As for the age of this tree, how old it is, Bai Chang himself, and even Baiyi Mountain are not very clear.

What Bai Yishan told Bai Chang was that his ancestors had been big officials in the Ming Dynasty. It was only later that he was exiled here, and at that time, he took a fancy to the feng shui here, fell in a mulberry forest, and finally left such a one.

If Daddy didn't brag about it, then this old mulberry tree would be at least a few hundred years old. In fact, if you think about it carefully, it makes sense. Aside from accidental factors, the older the tree, the more likely it is to mutate.

In the last days, Bai Chang even heard that Shennongjia had an ape-man kingdom that worshiped tree totems, and had been competing with the Zerg for territory.

As soon as his thoughts turned, Bai Chang was silent, carefully discerning the abnormal characteristics of the old mulberry tree. After more than ten minutes, it was possible to determine the type of mutation.

Bai Chang's eyes flashed with joy, and he kept looking left and right around the old mulberry tree, after all, he didn't expect that such a precious mutated plant would appear in front of him so simply.

It was a pleasant surprise!

At the beginning, until the end of the world, Bai Chang rarely came to his orchard. So subconsciously forget all the memories about this place.

Now, such a big surprise suddenly appeared in front of him, which made Bai Chang a little in a trance. After all, only after experiencing the end times can you understand how much change the plant in front of you will bring to the upcoming end times.

Blood Mulberry!

A species that in the last days, is comparable to the Western holy medicine, the blood crystal fruit.

A plant used to enhance the user's qi and blood power!

A mutant plant that allows the user to increase their health level with almost no side effects.

Some people even suspect that the Blood Clan invaded Western Europe for the first time, because mutated plants such as Blood Mulberry, Blood Grape, and Snake Essence Fruit have the ability to improve the blood bloodline.

Western Europe, on the other hand, is the main and almost only production area of blood crystal fruit, so it is taken care of by the blood clan.

"Whew!"

Exhaled a breath of turbidity, excited and abnormal, and gradually calmed down with Bai Chang's forced adjustment.

After all, the fruit at this time is not yet ripe, and this old mulberry tree can only be said to have the possibility of giving birth to hemorrhagic mulberry seeds.

Thinking slightly, the memories of the mutated plants, like a list, flashed through Bai Chang's mind:

The mutation process of mutated plants is somewhat similar to that of a butterfly cocoon. The original plants hoard nutrients and absorb the energy factors in the earth that have gradually changed.

When the first fruit is fully ripe, it will attract wild beasts or intelligent creatures to eat. The nutrients, including the plant itself, are then absorbed again to form true seeds in the plant's body.

When the seed grows into a plant again, it will metamorphose into a first-order lifeform, that is, a mutated plant.

As for why wait for the fruit to ripen once, it is actually essentially to absorb more nutrients and spread the seeds.

Animals that have only eaten the fruit before the metamorphosis will generally have various bad conditions:

Die directly in situ and become nutrients for mutated plants.

Becomes dependent on mutated plants and begins to protect the growth of mutated plants.

Chronic poisoning kills, and the seeds can be spread around.

What's more, after the fruit is ripe, the plant withers directly, and the seeds in the fruit are directly parasitic on the flesh and blood of the eater, and the person to be eaten is overwhelmed and dies, and the plant completes its transformation.

As for the first fruit of this blood mulberry, well......

As far as the common sense that Bai Chang knows, it does not mean that it cannot be eaten, after all, it also has the effect of increasing qi and blood and improving physical fitness. It's just the way it is eaten, and it needs to be changed.

"How? Isn't it dying? ”

Seeing his son surrounding the old mulberry tree, spinning like a spinning top for a long time, without saying a word, Baiyishan finally couldn't help but ask.

"It's all right, Dad, have you ever seen a dying tree bear fruit? It is estimated that the tree is too old, the growth cycle has changed, and it bears fruit twice, which is a good thing. ”

Listening to what his son said, it was indeed the case, and what his son said about the growth cycle, Baiyishan also believed it.

"Since the old mulberry tree is fine, help me cut down the dead mulberry tree, so as not to occupy the space."

As he spoke, Bai Yishan pointed to a mulberry tree not far away, and gave Bai Chang an axe casually.

Yellow leaves, waxy white trunks, bark covered with lumps of various sizes. It can be seen that not all plants can adapt to the changes of the earth. And yellow, waxy white, pimples, such characteristics are often a sign of the collapse of the tree's genes.

Plants tend to be more responsive to changes in the environment, but there are also individuals who are not adaptable. So death is a very normal thing.

It's just that most of the genetic collapse of plants is a direct death, but animals are different. Thinking of this, Bai Chang had a slight headache, then twisted his wrist, and slashed at the dead tree in front of him with an axe......